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Jarvis Cocker meets Iggy Pop: 'The more money a band has, the worse their records get'http://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/apr/02/jarvis-cocker-meets-iggy-pop-bbc-6-music
<p>As Iggy Pop starts his new Friday-night slot on BBC 6 Music, fellow DJ Cocker catches up with him to talk music, Miami and Marxism</p><p>Jarvis Cocker and Iggy Pop have an oddly large amount in common: careers spent largely on the outside before late acceptance and success; wildly idiosyncratic personas; and a shared tendency to provoke consternation on stage, be it by <a href="http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xalpov_brit-awards-1996-jarvis-cocker-vs-m_creation">gatecrashing a televised Michael Jackson performance</a> (in Cocker’s case) or repeated genital exposure (Iggy). Jarvis already has a weekly <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00ptsjd">Sunday afternoon show</a> on BBC 6 Music, on which Iggy has occasionally appeared as a stand-in. Now the Stooges frontman is joining the station’s roster in his own right, with a <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/mar/16/bbc-radio-6-music-gives-iggy-pop-new-permanent-friday-night-slot">regular Friday-evening programme</a>. Ahead of his debut next week, he talked to Cocker – in a conversation that roamed from rap, to French literature, to Iggy’s decision to make more new music.</p><p><strong>Jarvis: How do you get to hear stuff that you like to listen to?</strong></p> <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/apr/02/jarvis-cocker-meets-iggy-pop-bbc-6-music">Continue reading...</a>Iggy PopJarvis Cocker6 MusicBBCRadio industryMediaMichel HouellebecqBooksRapPop and rockMusicCultureUrban musicThu, 02 Apr 2015 17:48:31 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/apr/02/jarvis-cocker-meets-iggy-pop-bbc-6-musicPhotograph: Marten van Dijl/AFP/Getty ImagesIggy Pop: not the image of the archetypal BBC radio presenter.Photograph: Marten van Dijl/AFP/Getty ImagesIggy Pop: not the image of the archetypal BBC radio presenter.Photograph: Agencia EFE/Rex FeaturesJarvis Cocker: OK, Iggy, let’s test you on modern French literature …Photograph: Agencia EFE/Rex FeaturesJarvis Cocker: OK, Iggy, let’s test you on modern French literature …Photograph: Getty Images/Karen Robinson/Guardian photomontageIggy Pop and Jarvis Cocker: who says the BBC isn’t hip?Photograph: Getty Images/Karen Robinson/Guardian photomontageIggy Pop and Jarvis Cocker: who says the BBC isn’t hip?Jarvis Cocker2015-04-02T17:48:31ZClimate change is real. Want to live? It's up to people like you | Jarvis Cockerhttp://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/sep/18/climate-change-common-people-march-jarvis-cocker
<p>Politicians don’t understand. They just smile and hold the hand of big business. And so we march. Because destroying the Earth is not a good idea. It really isn’t</p><p>Do I really have to march? It’s actually a serious question: I mean, marching’s rather ... <em>military</em>, isn’t it? Bit aggressive. Bit too much like what the baddies on the other side would do, don’t you think? Wouldn’t you rather saunter? Or stroll? Mince, even? A hop, a skip or a jump – anything but stern-faced, humorless <em>marching</em>. And let’s face it: we’re probably going to need a sense of humor. </p><p>Remember 15 February 2003? If you’re taking the trouble to read this, then you probably went to <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/feb/15/iraq-war-mass-protest">an anti-war march that day</a>. Didn’t turn out so well, did it? Nothing really changed. The “largest protest event in human history”, as we remember it today, was effectively ignored. That left a nasty taste. It might even have put you off the idea of protesting forever. The marching boots were thrown to the back of the cupboard and you went into a major sulk. Maybe you even wrote a song about it. Yeah, that’ll tell ‘em. You wrote the words:</p><p>If you don’t like it then leave</p><p>or use your right to protest on the street.</p><p>On Sunday, Sept 21, a climate march through midtown Manhattan will kick off a week of high-profile climate events in the Big Apple. Promoted as an effort to bring unprecedented attention to climate change, the gathering comes just as international climate negotiations ramp up in a major push toward a new global accord. The <a href="http://peoplesclimate.org/march/">People’s Climate March</a>, being called the ‘largest climate march in history’ by organizers, will potentially draw <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/sep/08/activists-promise-biggest-climate-march-in-history">over a hundred thousand people</a> to walk through Manhattan and show a level of demand for action not seen since the era of Civil Rights marches and anti-Vietnam protests.</p> <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/sep/18/climate-change-common-people-march-jarvis-cocker">Continue reading...</a>Climate changeJarvis CockerPulpProtestClimate change scepticismGreenlandIcelandThu, 18 Sep 2014 11:45:01 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/sep/18/climate-change-common-people-march-jarvis-cockerPhotograph: Ronaldo Schemidt / AFP / GettyCould it be that there is a higher power than ... The Economy? Could it be that The Ecology is actually the biggie? Photograph: Ronaldo Schemidt / AFP / GettyPhotograph: Ronaldo Schemidt / AFP / GettyCould it be that there is a higher power than ... The Economy? Could it be that The Ecology is actually the biggie? Photograph: Ronaldo Schemidt / AFP / GettyJarvis Cocker for Creative Time Reports2014-09-18T11:45:01ZJarvis Cocker's top 10 music bookshttp://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/jun/13/jarvis-cocker-top-10-music-books
From Moominvalley to the Beatles, the musician on the books that blow his musical mind<p>&quot;It's impossible to write about music&quot; – I once began an interview with a music journalist with that statement. He pro<sup></sup>bably thought that I was being wilfully confrontational, but I was really trying to sympathise with his position of trying to define something that can never be adequately defined due to its&nbsp;essential nature. It's nothing to do with&nbsp;the skill of the writer – it's just an&nbsp;enterprise that is always doomed to&nbsp;failure. Sorry. That said, there have been some pretty noble failures …</p> <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/jun/13/jarvis-cocker-top-10-music-books">Continue reading...</a>MusicBooksLeonard CohenTove JanssonThe BeatlesPop and rockMusicCultureFri, 13 Jun 2014 06:00:16 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/jun/13/jarvis-cocker-top-10-music-booksUlf Andersen/GettyNik Cohn. Photograph: Ulf Andersen/GettyPer Olov Jansson/BBCTove Jansson. Photograph: Per Olov Jansson/BBCPRJohn Lennon, George Harrison and Ringo Starr on the video shoot for <em>Strawberry Fields Forever</em> in 1966Jeff Barnard/APKen Kesey. Photograph: Jeff Barnard/APSarah Lee/GuardianBob Stanley. Photograph: Sarah Lee for the GuardianJacqui BellamyReading to the rhythm … Jarvis Cocker. Photograph: Jacqui BellamyJacqui BellamyReading to the rhythm … Jarvis Cocker. Photograph: Jacqui BellamyJarvis Cocker2014-06-13T06:00:16ZThe John Lennon Letters, edited by Hunter Davies - reviewhttp://www.theguardian.com/books/2012/oct/10/john-lennon-letters-hunter-davies-review
Jarvis Cocker loves the&nbsp;Beatles, but it is time&nbsp;to move on<p>&quot;Fifty Years of the Rolling Stones&quot;, &quot;Fifty Years of 007&quot;, &quot;Fifty Years of the Beatles&quot; – as a 49 year-old I feel a little resentful of the latest round of anniversaries. They might as well write: &quot;Hey, something really exciting and important happened here and you just (but only just) missed it. Ha, ha.&quot; If there is no future any more, then at least we can celebrate anniversaries. The fact that a particular number of years has passed since an event appears to confer on it a certain gravitas and significance. (Though I'm sure I saw an advert for a Pretty Things reunion concert a couple of years ago that proclaimed &quot;43 years since the release of <em>SF Sorrow&quot;</em> or something similar.) We are children of the echo. Born just after some kind of explosion, and doomed to spend our lives working backwards to try and get as close as we can to the moment of that Big Bang. Now, a cosmologist will tell you that he knows what was happening in the universe a trillionth of a second after the big bang but he still can't explain the bang itself. And so it is for the commited Beatles-ologist – just how did those four lads come to &quot;shake the world&quot;? And shake it so hard? Will we ever know?</p><p>Maybe this might help to clear things up: <em>The John Lennon Letters</em>, put together by Hunter Davies, the guy who wrote <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/data/book/music/9780091930516/the-beatles-the-authorised-biography" title="">the very first Beatles biography</a> (which came out ages ago – like, you know, when they still existed). The earliest letter dates from 1951, the last from 1980. Everything happened between those dates – Hamburg, Beatlemania, Ed Sullivan, the Maharishi, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bagism" title="">Bagism</a>, &quot;Imagine&quot;, you name it – and Lennon found the time to write letters about it? Awesome! Well … not quite.</p> <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/books/2012/oct/10/john-lennon-letters-hunter-davies-review">Continue reading...</a>BooksCultureJohn LennonMusicThe BeatlesWed, 10 Oct 2012 12:16:01 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/books/2012/oct/10/john-lennon-letters-hunter-davies-reviewJane Bown/The ObserverJohn Lennon: domestic list-maker par excellence. Photograph: Jane Bown/The ObserverJane Bown/The ObserverJohn Lennon: domestic list-maker par excellence. Photograph: Jane Bown/The ObserverJarvis Cocker2012-10-10T12:16:01Z